Forms will be made available shortly. I yet have to do a news announcement and contact web sites. I think the textual content needs more changes/addition, but right now I'm desesperately tired of writing in english :)

Comments and questions are welcome.

Bjarni : if you have source for the logo, can you e-mail me one that is less than 600 pixels wide? This one is too large for some configuration. I can resize myself it but then it'll become blurrry.

Just one question though, I have a slow internet connection and it will take forever to send you my mp3 so I was just wondering may the file be zipped? or shall I make it a lower playback rate say 64KB/s?

Bjarni : if you have source for the logo, can you e-mail me one that is less than 600 pixels wide? This one is too large for some configuration. I can resize myself it but then it'll become blurrry.

Uh oh. I don't have any sources, because it is just something I slapped together quickly in... the Gimp, probably. But I should be able to repeat the achievement. I'm a bit busy, but I'll try to get it done within in the next couple of days.

1. On the front page for the competition, where it says "a MP3" it should say "an MP3".
2. The word "category" is separated from its colon by a space, which looks kind of odd.
3. I see you've modernised my wording and changed a "what" for a "which". I picked "what" because I thought it sounded better... but this is really whining. Anyway, changing "another" to "the other" might be a good idea. Picky, picky.
4. Why am I posting this crap instead of building computers?

Thanks for your logo, I posted it. I see it has been cut on the right but that's fine. SMS Power art has a tradition to look cheap anyway :)

Am I a bozo or what. Don't know how I managed to do that. I'll fix it... there, done. It made the image 515 pixels wide which bites slightly, but I am willing to live with that. The fixed version is in the same place as the old one was.

The bug I had in mind is where the text overlaps the arm of the robot: there are a few pixels there which are actually transparent and thus show up as blue although they ought to be red. I ran out of undos...

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I tweaked your text and then Maxim also did so. Hope it's ok. I won't worry about updating it now, seeing the task list I already have for this week-end.

Don't worry about it. I'm sure there are more important things to do.

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Hope that some of you are already working on their entrie(s). We must provide the upload script soon.

I was just wondering can we use Martin Konrads PSG Tracker to make a song?

I have already made a 12 bar blues progression in the key of C Major and I was thinking if it would be any good for the competition. And one more question, if we feel our entry is complete would it be possible as the submition script isn't up yet to send the file to Bock or Maxim via. E-Mail?

I was just wondering can we use Martin Konrads PSG Tracker to make a song?

Yes! Just be sure to submit a VGM exported from the tracker. You can also submit the original .psgmod source file if you want.

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I have already made a 12 bar blues progression in the key of C Major and I was thinking if it would be any good for the competition. And one more question, if we feel our entry is complete would it be possible as the submition script isn't up yet to send the file to Bock or Maxim via. E-Mail?

Just to let you know I made my submission nearly when the submission window opened and I put my name as "Jacko" not "jacko87" which is my username for the forums
I was the one that did the 12 bar blues with Martin's PSG tracker
I am sorry if you got confused it was vey inconsiderate of me not to let you know.

haven't realized i included the older version of the song in psgmod format. it's just a mistake, but you don't have to remove it as some of you might think the later part is unnecessary. anyway here's the latest version:

If anyone was wondering, the last entry, "Last minute dungeon", is by a friend of mine, Jakob. Lisbeth Åkerman Fanclub is the name of our band. I tipped him of the competition, and he was already thinking of recording a Wonder Boy III cover any way, so he entered it into the competition and signed it with the band name even though I had nothing to do with it. Our next album will probably feature a version with lyrics and everything :-).

I did put two song in for the compo. but I don't want to comment on my own because it is both unfair and bias.

The two songs that I would pick that are the best for the competiton are

-Mission 76496
-Last Minute Dungeon

Mission 76496 I feel has a good groove and has very good control over dynamics and it almost reminds me of some of the songs from lemmings with both white noise and periodic noise being used. I love how at the start one of the tracks was put to good use and plays a very high tone almost sounds like a triangle very cool.

All in all I I rate it 7/10

Last Minute Dungeon to me has beautiful expression in the playing. You can seriously feel that it was played with the right sort of mood in mind. It has good dynamics and clean strokes on the guitar wich make it a brilliant piece of music

So, what sort of judging system would you like to have? Have everyone rank each from 1-10 and total the results? I agree that just voting for one favorite is going to skew the results towards a couple of entries and leave the others with few or zero votes. Would we also break it up by category, like a seperate ranking for technical and artistic merit...

Actually it turns out to be fairly correct. I resisted the temptation of making a fully generic script, but it's halfway there in my mind, and I may improve it in the future so it can be reused for various other things.

It should be working well, but just in case, I'll leave it not mentionned on the competition page (only on this forum) for a day or so, to confirm it works.